Adultery

The ads in the race for sheriff have gone from discourse of crime and leadership to bedroom talk, and candidate Scott Israel is fuming. In the video above, Israel's wife, Susan, denounces the attack campaign. An enemy of the Israel candidacy posted three YouTube videos of a young woman claiming that she was 17 and that she and Israel had an affair, that she had an abortion, and that she just now realized he was married with triplets. "Do you really think I'm stupid?'' the unidentified woman asks. Israel asked YouTube to take down the videos, which he called defamatory. YouTube declined, as you'll see in Israel's campaign statement on the jump. ...

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